Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.

VVhat is Loue?

Loue is an affection, whereby the minde lusteth after that, which is either good indeed, or else that which seemes vnto it to be so. A∣mong other causes which besot men towards this affection of Loue, I finde idlenesse to be one of the principall, which being taken away, the force of loue presently decayeth, accor∣ding to that of the Poet:

Otia si tollas, periere Cupidinis arcus.

Next, I finde that mortification of the flesh weakeneth nature, and consequently subdu∣eth lust. Last of all, time and age doe con∣quer this tyrannous motion: but indeede the Grace of God, which enlighteneth the eyes of our vnderstanding, to regard and medi∣tate on the holy Scripture, is the most soue∣raigne and comfortable water of life, which cooleth and alayeth the fierie stings of vnlaw∣full loue.